Max Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Contrast Ratio: 100M:1
Audio
Speakers Built in
Interface
DVI
HDMI
DisplayPort
Physical Characteristics
Colour: Black
HxWxD 335.9 x 567 x 60.7mm
With Stand HxWxD 421.20 x 567 x 207.90mm
Weight: 4.24kg
Box Contents
K242HQK Widescreen LCD Monitor
DVI Cable
DisplayPort Cable
Power Cable
Top comments
bilbob to Lumiere
4 Jan 1611#18
Q: How do you know if someone owns a Mac?
A: Don't worry they'll tell you.
Always good for a laugh.
Despite being humorously true!
All comments (34)
gowingnator
4 Jan 16#1
Is it DVI-D?
mzmultics to gowingnator
4 Jan 16#2
Yup,
gowingnator
4 Jan 16#3
Reading reviews. Would my R9 280 support this? Only needing 1920 x 1080
mzmultics
4 Jan 16#4
Yes, but if you're not going for 4k at all, maybe a decent FHD screen would be enough.
dr_raff
4 Jan 16#5
Ok, this looks a deal to me, and good for my gaming rig setup.
So, someone tell me why it is sh*t....
k1ngchr15 to dr_raff
4 Jan 161#6
From what i've read there are only 2 small hiccups, and 1 slight annoyance.
Only 30Hz at DVI (but one comment suggested using a nvidia gfx tool could overclock that to around 50Hz without problems.)
And the anti glare layer is quite thick so will give the screen a slight sheen to it.
Finally, switching between inputs is apparently painfully slow. Just so you know.
If none of those are a problem for you its great.
I'm very tempted but having a 285/380 crossfire means gaming will be bottle-necked somewhat...
LewsTherin
4 Jan 16#7
980ti will be fine right? most games on 60fps?
rehanraza80 to LewsTherin
4 Jan 16#8
Yes.... Only if you plying medium to low on newer games like AC syndicate or witcher3 then u might get 60 fps. If you playing old games you might get 60 even on high settings. I'm using same monitor with 980ti.
MBeeching to LewsTherin
4 Jan 16#17
My 980Ti copes fairly well, you can generally get 60fps or very close with sensible graphic settings (e.g. reducing shadow quality and avoiding MSAA). There are a few titles where I use 50Hz instead (e.g. Metal Gear V / GTA). Witcher 3 is a tricky one, I prefer to play that at 1440p and keep the settings high/ultra.
Anything like Pinball FX2, LFD2, Street Fighter is a piece of cake and they look great.
mzmultics
4 Jan 16#9
That is very true, it may not be the best monitor for gaming. But as a budget 4k screen it should deliver just fine.
k1ngchr15
4 Jan 16#10
Agreed. I just wish I had to willpower to close the tab without buying it.........!
jmdr146
4 Jan 16#11
Great price for 4K res
Ordered thank you OP
sinister puds
4 Jan 16#12
Not very energy efficient, 32 kwh :laughing:
Alvie to sinister puds
24 Jan 16#31
Still less than most light bulbs
Lumiere
4 Jan 16#13
Thinking of hooking up my macbook pro to this to use as a second screen for photo editing. Any opinions on this as a good monitor for photo and video editing?
mzmultics to Lumiere
4 Jan 16#14
Resolution and refresh rate wise you should be fine. Can't comment on the colour reproduction (for sure it will not be on par with EIZO :wink: )
bilbob to Lumiere
4 Jan 1611#18
Q: How do you know if someone owns a Mac?
A: Don't worry they'll tell you.
Always good for a laugh.
Despite being humorously true!
BigYoSpeck to Lumiere
4 Jan 16#19
Depends if it's genuinely 8-bits color depth or actually only 6-bit plus 2-bit FRC. Unfortunately it's nearly impossible to find that information.
Of course that mattering all depends on how critical colour reproduction is for you. I know plenty of people that do graphic work on a 6bit TN panel as the colour accuracy isn't critical for their work.
eldaras to Lumiere
9 Jan 16#28
Apart from the jokes... There's an issue when connecting macs to non-apple monitors as OSX detects them as 'random non-apple crap'. Sorry that I cannot explain this in a better way (see links below). The issue is that OSX changes how it does aliasing (I'm not sure if this problem is only on text or on images too). There are some workarounds to install a patch that will force OSX to use smoothing... With El Capitan this is more difficult to address and SIP needs to be disabled.
You might find something from these guys a good fit: https://hazro.com/shop.html
Not 4K but damn good quality...
delicatejew
4 Jan 16#16
I purchased this exact monitor a few weeks ago. Regarding the anti glare layer there is some slight texture visible if looking very very closely. This is absolutely not a problem, and I never notice it. Switching inputs is quite slow, usually it adjusts the input automatically.
The frame is also quite thick.
That being said the screen is stunning, very accurate colours and you can really tell the difference of it being 4K, looks amazingly detailed. Also for the price of £200, nothing else comes near in terms of performance
joedredd
4 Jan 16#20
Funny..I like that.
Of course, that's a throw back from when people used to ask "Have you got a PC?" (no brand name ever mentioned because nobody cares about cream boxes)
jw191
4 Jan 16#21
It says 4K 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz, presumably using display port. I use NVidia surround (5760x1080) and can only imagine you'd need a couple of Titans to power 3 of these :-(
Still a bargain for a 4K monitor!
k1ngchr15
5 Jan 16#22
Well, it took me this long to order it.
Thanks op, heated.
paulie
5 Jan 16#23
Would this be a good bet with a PS4/XboxOne? My son wants a 4K monitor and I'm wondering if this could double up and be used with consoles etc also - I'm not too well versed on frame rates, refresh rates and so on - thanks all!
rinse to paulie
5 Jan 16#24
Consoles don't support that resolution so you're probably better off spending the money on a bigger 1080p screen
SilverSticker
5 Jan 16#25
How would a UHD screen at 24 inch be for productivity tasks?
In my mind UHD at 27+ inches makes sense because the text size will be bigger.
I fear that if I open 4 windows side by side in windows 10 I will struggle to read the contents on a 24 inch panel.
Can some one let me know if this would be true?
yanick to SilverSticker
6 Jan 16#26
If you run at 100% scaling, yes the text would be really small; probably too. It's more that you can run everything using a scaling of 150% or 200%; at 200% you get the same desktop area but everything (text, images) looks extra sharp compared to a 1080p display. It's the same principle as the retina macbooks (no, I don't own one :smiley:
_g_ to SilverSticker
7 Jan 16#27
From Windows 8.1 you should have decent scaling.
I use a 4k 15" laptop with a 28" 4k screen and a 24" 1080p screen. Windows sorts it out so everything's about the same size.
Even on the 15", while it doesn't aid productivity, it does look 'nicer'; even in a site like this, pictures are generally a bit sharper, as is text.
Personally, I'd probably go for a 28" if you can find one - my last 28" AOC 4k cost me £215 'official reconditioned' - while it may not have been, when I found a problem AOC did replace it for me, so was official.
Want a 40" 4k next time - I reckon 28-40" is the sweet spot for 4k being worth it.
BHANorthy
13 Jan 16#29
Just ordered thanks. Gonna use with my macbook via Mini DP.
mousedown
20 Jan 16#30
Great deal, bought
nske
26 Jan 16#32
Those sites that by choice (or, more often, accidentally) used high-resolution images, yes. Those that don't will look blury or pixelated with the scaling.
Same applies with applications, many or most 3rd party have graphics and GUI elements that don't scale nicely.
Unfortunatelly, at these resolution, experience in OSX is really much better than with any other OS -but one day they'll all get there.
BigYoSpeck
26 Jan 16#33
Ok I may be wrong on this, but a website being scaled with low resolution images will not scale any better in a browser on OSX than on Windows surely?
And yes experience wise I notice scaling issues in Windows more, but that's because it's on apps that aren't even available on OSX. Using any of the big name programs like Office or Adobe lineup and they scale just fine on either.
Again anyone with any actual examples they can site I'm open to learning about, but my experience of apps that don't scale well on Windows is with apps that aren't on OSX.
Windows itself scales fine (save for a few legacy utilities that are being deprecated), Chrome scales perfectly. As does most cross platform software.
Steam is the worse example of scaling I experience but that's only in the launcher app, the games obviously aren't affected.
nske
26 Jan 16#34
Yes, absolutely right.
I don't know how much things have changed over the last year, however everything was messed up when I tried. There were examples of the same applications behaving properly in OSX and not properly in Windows, like Dropbox and Chrome, but the thing was that mainly, after downloading a few random native OSX application and a few random native windows application (most windows applications that I can think of have native alternatives in OSX anyways), I could see much more frequent and important bugs in the windows ones: text overflowing, buttons being hidden or misaligned and the amount of those that were providing hi resolution elements was much worse.
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Opening post
Technical Specification
Display
Screen Size: 23.6"
Screen Mode: 4K UHD
Response Time: 4ms
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Back Light Technology: LED
Panel Technology: IPS
Tilt Angle: -5° ~ 25°
Brightness: 300cd/m2
Video
Max Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Contrast Ratio: 100M:1
Audio
Speakers Built in
Interface
DVI
HDMI
DisplayPort
Physical Characteristics
Colour: Black
HxWxD 335.9 x 567 x 60.7mm
With Stand HxWxD 421.20 x 567 x 207.90mm
Weight: 4.24kg
Box Contents
K242HQK Widescreen LCD Monitor
DVI Cable
DisplayPort Cable
Power Cable
Top comments
A: Don't worry they'll tell you.
Always good for a laugh.
Despite being humorously true!
All comments (34)
So, someone tell me why it is sh*t....
Only 30Hz at DVI (but one comment suggested using a nvidia gfx tool could overclock that to around 50Hz without problems.)
And the anti glare layer is quite thick so will give the screen a slight sheen to it.
Finally, switching between inputs is apparently painfully slow. Just so you know.
If none of those are a problem for you its great.
I'm very tempted but having a 285/380 crossfire means gaming will be bottle-necked somewhat...
Anything like Pinball FX2, LFD2, Street Fighter is a piece of cake and they look great.
Ordered thank you OP
A: Don't worry they'll tell you.
Always good for a laugh.
Despite being humorously true!
Of course that mattering all depends on how critical colour reproduction is for you. I know plenty of people that do graphic work on a 6bit TN panel as the colour accuracy isn't critical for their work.
* http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/99020/external-display-has-blurry-fonts-on-dell-u2312hm-macbook-pro-retina
* http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/209732/external-display-and-blurry-fonts-on-el-capitan
* Google search on the subject: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=macbook+blurry+external+monitor
https://hazro.com/shop.html
Not 4K but damn good quality...
The frame is also quite thick.
That being said the screen is stunning, very accurate colours and you can really tell the difference of it being 4K, looks amazingly detailed. Also for the price of £200, nothing else comes near in terms of performance
Of course, that's a throw back from when people used to ask "Have you got a PC?" (no brand name ever mentioned because nobody cares about cream boxes)
Still a bargain for a 4K monitor!
Thanks op, heated.
In my mind UHD at 27+ inches makes sense because the text size will be bigger.
I fear that if I open 4 windows side by side in windows 10 I will struggle to read the contents on a 24 inch panel.
Can some one let me know if this would be true?
I use a 4k 15" laptop with a 28" 4k screen and a 24" 1080p screen. Windows sorts it out so everything's about the same size.
Even on the 15", while it doesn't aid productivity, it does look 'nicer'; even in a site like this, pictures are generally a bit sharper, as is text.
Personally, I'd probably go for a 28" if you can find one - my last 28" AOC 4k cost me £215 'official reconditioned' - while it may not have been, when I found a problem AOC did replace it for me, so was official.
Want a 40" 4k next time - I reckon 28-40" is the sweet spot for 4k being worth it.
Same applies with applications, many or most 3rd party have graphics and GUI elements that don't scale nicely.
Unfortunatelly, at these resolution, experience in OSX is really much better than with any other OS -but one day they'll all get there.
And yes experience wise I notice scaling issues in Windows more, but that's because it's on apps that aren't even available on OSX. Using any of the big name programs like Office or Adobe lineup and they scale just fine on either.
Again anyone with any actual examples they can site I'm open to learning about, but my experience of apps that don't scale well on Windows is with apps that aren't on OSX.
Windows itself scales fine (save for a few legacy utilities that are being deprecated), Chrome scales perfectly. As does most cross platform software.
Steam is the worse example of scaling I experience but that's only in the launcher app, the games obviously aren't affected.
I don't know how much things have changed over the last year, however everything was messed up when I tried. There were examples of the same applications behaving properly in OSX and not properly in Windows, like Dropbox and Chrome, but the thing was that mainly, after downloading a few random native OSX application and a few random native windows application (most windows applications that I can think of have native alternatives in OSX anyways), I could see much more frequent and important bugs in the windows ones: text overflowing, buttons being hidden or misaligned and the amount of those that were providing hi resolution elements was much worse.